About this time I learned that General Beauregard had reached Hood's army at Gadsden; that, without assuming direct command of that army, he had authority from the Confederate Government to direct all its movements, and to call to his assistance the whole strength of the South.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But in truth the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them, and to these they all, universally, pay a ready submission.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The opportunity is good to impress on the population the truth that they are more interested in civil government than we are; and that, to enjoy the protection of laws, they most not be passive observers of events, but must aid and sustain the constituted authorities in enforcing the laws; they must not only submit themselves, but should pay their share of taxes, and render personal services when called on.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Cornelius Gallus, the first governor of the country appointed by (Augustus) Cæsar, attacked the city Heroopolis, which had revolted, 893 and took it with a small body of men.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

In many ways, as in the “College Settlement” of courageous girls, the Neighborhood Guilds, through the efforts of the King’s Daughters, and numerous other schemes of practical mission work, the poor and the well-to-do have been brought closer together, in an every-day companionship that cannot but be productive of the best results, to the one who gives no less than to the one who receives.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Very carefully gives the rose pollen to an unfamiliar flower—rather wistfully unfamiliar, which stands above on a small shelf near the door of the inner room .)
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

[A; ac] 1 connecting, going through two disparate things.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This chapter gives twelve names of Odin.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

These considerations will harmonise also with what we said at the commencement: for we assumed the End of [Greek Text: poletikae] to be most excellent: now this bestows most care on making the members of the community of a certain character; good that is and apt to do what is honourable.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

“The celery,” growled the Baron, looking into his plate.
— from The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale by Owen Wister

He may, in the interest of appreciation, try the experiment of lending them some scrap of a complaint or a curse in order that they shall meet him on congruous ground, the ground of encouragement to his own participating impulse.
— from Within the Rim, and Other Essays, 1914-15 by Henry James

“Never mind, John,” said Rob; “we could go two days without anything to eat if we had to, and in two days, at least, we’ll be where you can get as square a meal as you like.
— from The Young Alaskans in the Rockies by Emerson Hough

The translating was a great relief when she could get to it.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

“He can go,” said Mr. Evans, with an attempt at dignity; “he can go this time, and I hope that this'll be a lesson to him not to go about looking like other people.
— from Sailors' Knots (Entire Collection) by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Slowly the hours dragged on, until the last gleams of daylight had faded from the skylight above, and a solitary electric light, hung centrally, gave the only illumination.
— from Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

The power house is fully described elsewhere in this publication, but it is not inappropriate to refer briefly in this place to certain considerations governing the selection of the generating unit, and the use of engines rather than steam turbines.
— from The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment by Interborough Rapid Transit Company

She isn't much of a hand for writing, and, somehow, I never could get the right crooks on the letters."
— from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

But perhaps the best way to get a full sense of the storied antiquity, forming as it were the background to those mediæval documents which in Mr. Nash’s eyes pretty much begin and end with themselves, is to take, almost at random, a passage from such a tale as Kilhwch and Olwen , in the Mabinogion ,—that charming collection, for which we owe such a debt of gratitude to Lady Charlotte Guest (to call her still by the name she bore when she made her happy entry into the world of letters), and which she so unkindly suffers to remain out of print.
— from Celtic Literature by Matthew Arnold